The New Paper, 2 November 1988

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  • 12 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1988 ma <r> tn/4/m 50 CENTS
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  • 1 1 SPORTS
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  • 61 1 Paralysed from the chest down since age 11, Grace Ong has made herself into a world-class athlete. An hour a day, six days a week, she zips around a track faster than most people on their legs. Now she's going with her $4,000 racing wheelchair
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 409 2 THE Central Provident Fund hasn't announced it yet but the 2.96 per cent interest rate on CPF savings is expected to rise to 3.1 per cent on Jan 1. That's up 0.14 point. A CPF spokesman, contacted this morning about the impending change,
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    • 47 2 Unhappy: Her features fixed in a royal frown, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands watches the ponies run at the Melbourne Cup in Australia. At left f smiling, is Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen. The Queen is on a 12-day visit to Australia. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 74 2 Wire services. PHOTOS of nude men will be used in a publicity campaign for the city of Cologne, West Germany. Officials say the move is aimed at calming protests by feminist groups. They were made unhappy by last year's use of a naked
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    • 119 2 Wire services. SARDINIAN kidnappers tore off part of an Italian tycoon's right ear with nail clippers before freeing him for a record ransom. Mr Giulio De Angelis was snatched from his luxury villa on Sardinia's Costa Smeralda on June 12 by four masked men armed with
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    • 222 2 FEW trade missions are led by a real prince. Even fewer can boast of their own orchestra. The Belgian missionthat will arrive here on Tuesday for a three-day visit will have both. Its delegation is headed by Prince Albert, brother of Belgium's King Baudouin.
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    • 120 2 IT'S Tree-planting Day this Sunday. Two thousand and more trees will have been planted all over Singapore by the end of the day. Acting Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, Cabinet Ministers and MPs will lead residents and community leaders to plant fruit trees, ornamental trees
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    • 86 2 TIME seems to be running out for touts. Twelve of them, the largest number so far, were charged in court separately yesterday with being a public nuisance. They were caught harassing tourists to buy fake watches along Orchard Road. Of the ten who pleaded guilty, nine
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    • 124 2 ENGINEERS can't agree on whether blocks C, D and E of Maryland Park in Katong are strong and safe highrise buildings. Two engineers were assigned by the managing committee to check structural safety. They came up with these opinions: (1) All pillars supporting the buildings
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    • 423 3  -  By Harinder Gill GRACE Ong is paralysed from the chest down. But put her on an athletics track and she'll "outrun" most people who run on their legs. Grace, 23, took up wheelchair athletics in 1985. For the past eight months, she's been in regular training. And
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 29 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook today from noon to midnight: Showers over many areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 6.50 pm. Sunrise tomorrow. 6.46 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 577 4  -  By Irene Ng HE was a ladies' man. He said he had slept with about 40 women. But his sex drive has come to a screeching halt. One of those women turned around and cried rape. That's what Mr EK Too, 30,
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    • 144 4 A MAN who could no longer stand his wife's mental illness killed himself with her medicine, the coroner's court was told yesterday. Ng Keng Wah, 39, a driver with the Singapore Bus Service, telephoned his mother, Madam Eu Ah Kew, on Aug 29 this year
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    • 166 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. apparent: Something that is apparent is clear, can be easily seen and understood. baffled: If a person is baffled by someone's behaviour, he cannot understand or explain the person's
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    • 242 4 A NATURAL stand of tembusu trees on Sentosa has taken on a supernatural air. A genie lives in a wishing well there. Toss in a coin and he speaks. A fairy floats near a pool. A familiar-looking lion from mainland Singapore stands guard.
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    • 316 5  -  By Chitra Rajaram LIGHT falls softly in the leafy jungle. The air is balmy. It's filled with the scent of jasmine. Crickets sing. Love birds coo and woo. At least that's what the Social Development Unit hopes will happen. No, this is not Splendour
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    • 165 5 ACADEMICIANS, economists, business executives and undergraduates gathered in the Westin Stamford Hotel this morning for some serious talks. The topic? Projecting Singapore's Economy. This is the 15th symposium organised by Aiesec Singapore, an organisation made up of undergraduates from the National University of Singapore and
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    • 397 6  -  By Thusitha De Silva A PIECE of fire-fighting equipment now on show in town would have come in handy for the Merlimau refinery fire last week. It can shoot water and foam as far as 100 metres. It is specially detsigned for chemical
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    • 170 6 SIX hundred firemen shed their familiar khaki uniforms for suits and ties at a party at the Westin Stamford Hotel last night. They will not be getting into those uniforms again. When they take off the party clothes and dress for work today they will be
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    • 293 6 THE National Institute of Commerce is getting closer to its students. It's moving nearer to where most of them live. "We plan to have a commercial institute on the east of the island as well as on the west. That way, we
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    • 302 6 A MALAYSIAN farmboy died on Monday when his leg was crushed in a machine at the Singapore plant where he worked. Police said yesterday they received a 999 call at about 3.20 pm about an accident at the Pioneer Refinery on Tuas Avenue 13. The factory
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    • 327 7  -  By Angeline Song y I 1 OU might call it a little bit of heaven. Some use it as playpens for grandchildren. Some families store shoes there. Others turn the space into homegrown greenhouses. They are private balconies of a sort. And they are in
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    • 149 7  -  BY Brenton Wong IDENTITY that was what was lacking at the Soda Show last night. Soda wants to promote Singapore as a fashion centre of the region. No way. Hongkong is miles ahead of us. Out of 12 designers, the only one with a strong
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    • 67 8 MAN, not just machines, brings about continuous productivity increases, the Prime Minister said yesterday. He gave the example of electronics manufacturer Nichicon. It has factories in Japan and Singapore. Both have the same type of machines but productivity is 30 per cent higher in Japan. Why?
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    • 60 8 WORKERS are multi-skilled, more flexible and adaptable. There is less absenteeism and job-hopping. They are willing to learn all the time, and so can keep on improving their productivity. The workers do not see themselves as white- or blue-collar workers. They consider themselves greycollar workers. Supervisors help operate and
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    • 91 8 WORKERS are not as skilled or flexible. Absenteeism and job-hopping are a problem. But the Prime Minister saia: "I think we can cure all that except job-hopping." Also, there is a distinction between blue- and white-col-lar jobs. Mr Hizaki says that in some factories, technicians, group leaders and supervisor
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    • 336 8 P I RODUCnVITY is a long haul, said Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday. Or in the words of the Chinese philosopher, Guanzi, whom Mr Lee quoted, productivity is a marathon without a finish line. Mr Lee was launching Productivity Month at the Singapore Conference
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    • 324 8 TRAIN-up be the best you can be. That is the theme of this year's productivity campaign. The six companies that won this year's National Productivity Awards all emphasise worker education, participation in quality control and productivity. American Express International Inc Has a separate Quality Assurance
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    • 118 8 A TINY premature baby struggled for life in an oxygen tent at a hospital today as his severely burned mother lay near death in intensive care. The baby was taken from the mother's womb by a Caesarian operation yesterday. The doctors acted after Ms
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 179 7 DREAM COTTAGE CONTEST The second of our three Lucky Draws was held at Sogo on Sunday 30 October 1966. Each of the 25 people listed below is now the proud winner of a Barbie Dreem Cottage Barbie Dream Cottage Winners 2nd Lucky Draw Trad LI Quo Baotoao Li Ytymg Adate
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 265 10 Wire services. WASHINGTON says the Soviets have moved deadly new Scud missiles into Afghanistan capable of reaching Pakistan. The claim by a State Department spokesman yesterday follows a disclosure by Moscow that it has sent new weapons to Afghan forces. The Kremlin did not say, however, that
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    • 170 10 Wire services. THE captain of a freighter that collided with a vessel carrying 486 British children and teachers has been charged with manslaughter. Capt Flavio Caminale, 45, from Genoa, Italy, was ordered to be held in Athens, Greece, pending trial. A prosecutor said the
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    • 57 10 Family tfcs: The daughter of a suspected terrorist kisses her father through the bars of a courtroom cell in Cairo. Mahmoud Nouraddin is among 20 men now on trial in a major security case in Egypt They are accused of taking part in attacks against Israeli and
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    • 138 10 Wire services. A US Marine held hostage by Iran for 444 days is being discharged as unfit for service. A Marine Corps spokesman yesterday said the US would honourably discharge Sgt John McKeel, 35, and give him a $70,000 settlement. Years of
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    • 407 10  -  By William L Chaze MR TOM FOOB has a problem. The Ohio college student wants some day to become President of the US. Since he is only 23, he has plenty of time to get ready. But he frets that he may miss
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    • 491 11  -  By The Foreign Desk THE rightist Likud Party today claimed victory in an Israel election dominated by Palestinian unrest in the occupied territories. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said his Likud Party would form a coalition government with a scattering of smaller religious parties that share Likud's hard-lining
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    • 109 11 Wire services. ACTRESS Koo Stark, one of Prince Andrew's former girlfriends, has sued a weekly newspaper for libel. Her lawsuit, filed in Britain, accuses The Sunday People of ruining her marriage by reporting in 1985 that she was secretly dating the
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    • 42 11 Easy, boVJ A mounted policeman comforts his horse Fritz, who slipped into a hole while on patrol in Boston's South End. Firemen used a crane to pull him up. His injuries were not believed serious. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 183 11 Wire services. AMERICA'S latest heavy battle tank will soon be part of the Egyptian military arsenal. The two countries yesterday signed an agreement allowing Cairo to produce the tank also one of the world's most advanced. The understanding was signed by visiting US Defence Secretary
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    • 128 11 Wire services. GOVERNMENTS should seek the help of prostitutes in the fight against Aids, say world health experts. The call was made in a report issued at the end of a four-day meeting of World Health Organisation (WHO) experts in Geneva. The report said
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    • 249 12 Wire services. THAI Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan denies that his country's military stole $7 million from a secret CIA fund. M lt is shocking that a secret fund has been revealed like this," he said. He refused to elaborate. The $24 million fund is supposed to be
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    • 171 12 Wire services. MICKEY Mouse won't be w3 the US goodwill ambassador to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef). The UN has given up on the idea of giving the famous cartoon mouse the title of His Excellency. But UN officials said Mickey's
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    • 130 12 Wire services. CAMBODIA'S Vietnam-ese-backed regime intends to lure more foreign investment by changing the rules for doing business. A senior official of the Planning Ministry in Phnom Penh, Mr Hul Lim, said a new and liberal code should be announced in six months or so. Mr
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • STOCKS
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      256 12 Wire services. SHARES closed higher on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, with the Financial Times 30-share index up six points at 1,507.7. Investors felt reassured by the autumn financial statement by Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson. A firm opening on Wall Street and selective demand for blue chips
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    • 77 12 Reuter. SHARE prices were higher in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today with buying carried over from yesterday, brokers said. The Nikkei index gained 59.36 points, or 0.21 per cent, to 28,073.03 after 10 minutes of trade. Advances were led by railway/bus, retail, pharmaceutical, gas, precision instrument,
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    • 51 12 a FT Industrials Tue 1,507.70 (1,501.70) Dow Jones Average Tue 2,150.96 (2,148.65) ST Industrial Tue 1,032.67 (1,039.27) NST Industrial 1,721.22 (1,730.84) Hongkong Hang Seng Tue 2,615.43 (2,627.41) Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,584.70 (1,585.00) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 28,013.67 (27,982.54) Figures in bracket* refer to thoee of the previous trading
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      279 12 Wire services. TRADING was light on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday with the market showing no signs of direction. Blue chips were up slightly, but the broader market edged down. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 2.31 at 2,150.96. Declining issues outpaced advancing stocks about seven
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  • HORIZONS
    • 1054 13 DEAR AGGIE Dear Aggie, Since a quarrel a few months ago, my husband has stayed at his mother's house. Friends tell me he is angry because I do not respect his parents and because I have often threatened to divorce him. I find
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    • 317 13 EVERY mother who goes back to work after having a baby faces a dilemma. Is she doing the right thing for herself and the baby, or is she being selfish? The conflict can produce long-term psychological effects, the most apparent and distressing being guilt. Just
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  • Showtime
    • 480 14 You've seen him swim. You've heard him sing. Now, the singer-songwriter is to make his mark on a musical in Chinese. Mark Chan tells ADELINE WOON why writing for The Robbers from Nutmeg Town comes easy while choreographer Goh Lay Kuan describes her moves. s
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    • 277 15  -  By Ting Mei See FREE seating. This is what movie-goers at Jade 2 have to put up with now that the former Jade cinema has been split into Jade 1 and Jade 2. Said Mr C Y Chen of Shaw Organisation which owns
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    • Article, Illustration
      225 15 MONKEY SHINES (Capitol) ALLAN Mann's (Jason Beghe) life is going great guns until an accident leaves him confined to a wheelchair. Ella, a capuchin monkey, cares for his every need, but Ella seems to be in Allan's mind. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 49 15 8928 SHADES OF POLAROID From the trendy 'sportive' to the latest 'faces' (pictured here), nothing beats DnlomiH the timeless style of Polaroid Sunglasses. When you just gotta look sharp. H IUIGI vSIU Available at all leading departmental stores optical outlets. Sole agent Liebermann Overseas Trading Pte Ltd. Tel: *****88.
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  • spotlight
    • 172 16 \7Y rmrrored in the Hall, who's the fairest oi them all? Television reporter LO TIEN YZW looks'at $BC's Hall of Fame and asks readers to identify the winners of a coming popularity pefL You will be offered a chance to vote as well. Call
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    • 332 16 ACTORS Zhu Houren. Li J Nanxing and Wang YuqiAg W rate high on the pop polls J at the present at least judging frQm the reaction < of some readers we inter- actresses they for include, Zeng Liu Qiulian and When Xiuhuan. Xiangyun was included
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1782 17 SCREEN M Magnum, PI I Insight Vkleofashion News GEMS W A Little Bit of Luck (8.00 pm, SBC 12) American Best (7-55 pm, SBC 5) THIS news magazine zooms in on the (7.20 pm, SBC 12) million dollars! Rick IgfjSAl' American designers de La UHK DaTtjuayle on to campaign traiL
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 203 18 sLa level* in Manchester, Britein Titles: Mim 1987; Fourth runner-up Mim Universe 1988 WwAhT Canton—e, Mandarin a •eMpsttMC Televiuon w; artiste 1 SShsr 35 Japany, Vistnsmese h Whitney Hourton and Michael Jackaon Joan Collins V fci, fl iJdfl H B' Jfl JrvJi 11 K 1 B\ J JB P Bfc
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 301 22  -  By Lo Tien Yin Y I OUR favourite TV theme song, Kopi-O, will soon be back, this time in English. You will hear it with the dubbed-over Coffeeshop serial coming to your living room this Saturday, 9.30 pm on Channel 5. Coffeeshop stars
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    • 344 22 MODEL, mother and Mrs Malaysia that's June Ee Cheng Yen. This glamorous 25-year-old from Ipoh is also a budding actress. She is with Sun Swee Productions, a film company based in Kuala Lumpur. Married to a doctor for the last six years, she has a four-year-old
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    • 262 22  -  By Lo Tien Yin FILMING on our first TV English drama serial starts next week. On Nov 7 and 8, the normally quiet Dutch Club at Camden Park will be very busy. A cast of nine actors and 10 crew
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    • 378 23  -  Can popular singer Jacintha make it among the bright lights of London? She has been chosen to audition for the demanding lead role of Miss Saigon, a new London musical to open in September next year By Ting Mei See JACINTHA Abisheganaden could be on
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    • 359 23 USA Today. H ERE we go again! It's another season of lip-glossed, mas-cara-laden soap queens on prime-time. But the soaps are in very hot soup. They are desperately grappling for top ratings. Somehow, the popularity of prime-time soaps has lost out to 1985's sitcom revolution led
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    • 335 24  -  By Vivien Chiong N ■OTHING lasts forever. City Girls may be Taiwan's most successful song-and-dance duo right now. But some day they know they'll have to part. "In two years' time, I'll be 25! We can't call ourselves City Girls anymore," said Huang Ya Min, one
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    • 158 24 BASIL Martin, who was last seen singing from above a crane at Centrepoint during the Swing Singapore party, is back. This time, he's with a new band called Criss-Cross. They are playing at the Anywhere lounge at Tanglin Shopping Centre. "I'm more into black vocals,
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    • 393 24 c HANG Tao Tao has one main goal to establish herself as a singer. The 22-year-old, who was a child actress, decided the theatre was not for her and now wants only to sing. She was one of the opening acts
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 253 26 Build up your child's Word Power with HBBjIBB A new series of 10 books, spedaly designed to help young children leam new words within s particular grammatical context. The lively and amusing illustrations in full-colour will delight the children while parents and teachers will find these books a useful teaching
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 132 26 COMICREUEF Hagar the Horrible/Dix Browne You* FATWBfZ dUBSS i JiJSTMI(2gP R3frn2AlTls S Zx A PORTRAIT M 6 (SOINS /S\ JS I t PAINTER J^PAlhiT^ AllgUSta/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill George the Robot/stephen Stanley r nlcnV You VAAs/g: Qpo«;*.-Uc»A/ CoutO XSo rps fcAoc "To |"T "To AOMVT V/A F WAtF Tfc* MArJ
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 131 27 COMICFEUEF Orchard Road/coiin Goh Single Slices/Peter Kohisaat K)IUMiDOCIOt. YkUIT 1 THEWe ]ri JLf\ I "WEN 661, HZ j m A Aft. Cathy/Cathy Guisewite »l ten< j t0 ta^e on g walks on Sunday fSEE HMO FEffllMlNE THE WOE YSEE HOWTHE 10 YfIROS Of 'i fsEE HOU) THEY SEE* TO StffH
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 1627 30 RADKX3UIDE EMSMSajEiaBBi NOON News la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Beed Maslc, Coaipaay aad Ma: NOON Noanlnli 12.05 Laachdate: Jenny Too spins NOON Eaay Listeaing: Light and easy SSfTS*hSEkUff thimaa 12.J0 Business Matters: A weekly nr sJ[ pop wng. to entertain you dur- music for afternoon listener.. yourlimch break with
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 317 31 Reuter. M ICHEL Platini, the best player France has produced, is to replace Henri Michel as coach of the French national team. Platini's appointment was confirmed yesterday by Jean Fournet-Fayard, president of the French Football Federation. He told French radio the move was decided after France's abysmal
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    • 163 31  -  RACING By Dennis Chia TODAY is D-Day for jockey Kevin W.Y. Chee. The stewards of the Bukit Turf Club will decide on his appeal against a one-month suspension this morning. Chee was charged under MRA Rule of Racing 149(a) for riding an ill-judged race on My
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    • 217 31 Reuter, AFP. BIG-SPENDING Tottenham's depressing soccer season continued yesterday when it drew 0-0 at home with Second Division Blackburn in the third round of the Littlewoods Cup. Tottenham, bottom of the First Division, looked like going out of the competition when Scott Sellars netted for Blackburn
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    • 132 31 AFP. NEWCASTLE sprang a major surprise yesterday when it appointed Colin Suggett as its new manager. This came just hours after it appeared that former Celtic boss David Hay had landed the hot job at the English First Division soccer club. Club chairman Gordon McKeag said
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    • 494 31 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: ICE HOCKEY US National Hockey League: Calgary 6 Chicago 3. RUGBY UNION Tour match in Cambridge: Australia 36 England Students 13. Tour match in Niort: French Selection 31 Argentina 22. Tour match in France: New Zealand Maoris 31 French Barbarians 14. SOCCER
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  • SPORTS
    • 421 32  -  Singapore's chances against Asia's star shuttlers are as good as infantrymen battling five-star generals when the Asian Badminton Confederation Championships begin on Sunday PREVIEW By BERNARD PEREIRA who will cover the meet in Bandar Lampung H I AMID KHAN takes a game off world No. 5
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    • 346 33 SHAHIRON SAHARI on the Asia* Rugby FMtfcaN Tournament to HK E IGHT-TIME winner Japan has always put great emphasis on the biennial Asian Rug- by Football Tournament. But next week's edition in Hongkong will have even greater significance. "Whoever wins the ARFT from now on will lay
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    • 221 33 TODAY'S proposed Singapore-Malaysia rugby friendly has been cancelled because the Malaysians couldn't afford the trip. Singapore did not play in the Malaysian Rugby Union Cup in Kuala Lumpur last month for the same reason. But this is not tit-for-tat, assured MRU
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    • 201 33 ANTHONY Chua, who beat Zainal Abidin 3-0 in the fourth-leg final of the Guinness Squash Circuit last month, is determined to prove that the win was not a fluke. 1 He has promised to repeat the feat in the fifth leg in Sabah next
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    • 202 33  -  By Alfonso Chan SINGAPORE'S Tenpin Bowling Congress committee member and Asian Zone FIQ vice-president, Dr. Ong Teck Thian, has been appointed 'technical' chief of Asian bowling. The appointment was made after the Seoul Olympics. Dr Ong's task will be to build a group of officials
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    • 333 34  -  TWO of Singapore's top soccer strikers were dropped yesterday from the national squad. The decision by the Football Association of Singapore comes as a surprise. The players and their team-mates talk to The New Paper By Abdul Shukor SALIM Moin and K. Kannan expressed shock when
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    • 403 34  -  By S. Gulam SELANGOR wants Salim Moin for its Malaysia Cup soccer campaign next year. The Malaysia Cup semi-fi-nalist will make a move for the Singapore striker as soon as "we get over the Malaysia Cup-blues." Selangor lost to Kuala Lumpur in the semi-final this year.
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    • 323 35  -  By Abdul Shukor THERE were mixed feelings among the Singapore players regarding the dropping of two of the team's top footballers Salim Moin and K. Kannan from the Merlion Cup squad. Zulkifli Kartoyoho, Singapore's budding midfielder, feels a bit sad that Salim and
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    • 252 35  -  By S. gulam SINGAPORE began its Merlion Cup preparations on a disheartening note only 14 players turned up for last night's training at the Jalan Besar Stadium. Twenty-two players were to have reported, after coach Seak Poh Leong dropped three players Kannan Kunjuramman, Salim Moin and
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    • 811 36 WEDNESDAY AT|». v GUIDE TO TODAY'S ACTION ►Centresme FAMILY MAYHEM. Six Characters in Search of an Author is a family drama put up by Varsity Playhouse. Father, mother, a stepdaughter, two sons and another daughter tell their life stories. Stepdaughter accuses father of mistreating mother. Then stepdaughter has sex with
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